Linus is Comfortable Not Owning Ubisoft Games

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  • @LegionIscariot
    @LegionIscariot 10 місяців тому +748

    For a company, who just screwed over their customers by pulling the plug on a game that had no business being online only, to then tell people that they should trust them. Ubisoft has no shame.

    • @Nighthunt01
      @Nighthunt01 10 місяців тому +4

      i get everyone loves to hate on Ubisoft, but I wonder how these comments feel about Microsoft's Game Pass

    • @t.r.2283
      @t.r.2283 10 місяців тому +2

      Honestly you are wrong. All the people stupid enough to not realise what online only means got what they paid for.

    • @killertruth186
      @killertruth186 10 місяців тому +9

      And what is worse, For Honor and Tom Clancy's The Division 1 has always online. I do get the online multiplayer aspect, but the "always online" is plain out stupid. Especially when if internet get's cut off. It's literally like for PC hardware being always online in order to use the system.

    • @abeardedhoboTV
      @abeardedhoboTV 10 місяців тому

      He didn’t even say people should trust them in not owning their games

    • @Leffrey
      @Leffrey 10 місяців тому +23

      @@Nighthunt01 The difference is that Game Pass is a subcription to all the available games at once, whereas a one-and-done purchase of a game should be relatively permanent with regards to local or singleplayer content.
      One's an actual service, the other is bullshit. It's the same as Netflix vs renting a movie (but it costs as much as buying it outright and you can't actually buy it outright or else a microchip will set fire to your DVD at random)

  • @42pyroboy
    @42pyroboy 10 місяців тому +252

    My little sister was devastated when she lost all of the worlds she had created over time in little big planet. We are not comfortable with not owning our media!

    • @Badtaste21
      @Badtaste21 10 місяців тому +18

      I genuinely feel sorry for your sister, because yeah, this sucks. Big time. It's kind of like a school bully destroying the thing you made for art class or something. And he's like, "Oh, and if you make another one, I'll destroy that too. Nerd." (because that could happen to any game like that) At least that's how it would feel to me.
      I feel the same way about Ubisoft shutting down The Crew. I would want to come back to that game from time to time because I put a lot of hours into tuning/customizing my cars and then it's just gone. Although they could easily make it playable offline? I think this should be regulated so they can't "destroy" games.

    • @1ycan-eu9ji
      @1ycan-eu9ji 10 місяців тому +2

      :(

    • @everythingpony
      @everythingpony 9 місяців тому +3

      If she had them downloaded she wouldn't have lost them

    • @utfigyii5987
      @utfigyii5987 9 місяців тому +8

      @@everythingpony What happens if the original device where they were stored breaks?

    • @JustToad27
      @JustToad27 3 місяці тому +1

      @@utfigyii5987to don’t break the device, simple

  • @FollowingStorm0
    @FollowingStorm0 10 місяців тому +2049

    If buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't stealing.

    • @italianbasegard
      @italianbasegard 10 місяців тому +89

      You wouldn’t download a car.

    • @crashdude7589
      @crashdude7589 10 місяців тому +71

      @@italianbasegardbut I can’t buy it though

    • @normaluser4599
      @normaluser4599 10 місяців тому +182

      @@sirsneakybeaky If I steal someones food they will no longer have the food. If I pirate a book or a movie, the owner wont even know about it. And pirating something doesnt necessarily mean that I would buy the product if pirating wasnt an option.

    • @pinquinsam4812
      @pinquinsam4812 10 місяців тому +16

      ​@@italianbasegardif i could sure why not?

    • @En_Joshi-Godrez
      @En_Joshi-Godrez 10 місяців тому +20

      ​@@sirsneakybeaky you are evil

  • @lovyNOM
    @lovyNOM 10 місяців тому +350

    Ubisoft is taking an unconventional marketing strategy of deliberately trying to prevent people from remembering what their app is called

    • @z1mt0n1x2
      @z1mt0n1x2 10 місяців тому +10

      Yeah, they pull an Apple.
      See, some years ago... Apple successfully managed to manipulate everyone to think that Plug&Play was outdated. Connecting, downloding itunes, syncing, updating, and converting from mp3 to m4a is just so much simpler than just Plug&Play.
      Nobody prolly even remembers there used to be ordinary and simple mp3 players :P

    • @DarkBiCin
      @DarkBiCin 3 місяці тому

      Its genius on their part. If people cant find the app they cant log in and play what they bought resulting in having to create a new accounts and make new purchases.

  • @ceasormayhem101
    @ceasormayhem101 10 місяців тому +337

    This always happens with subscription services. They start off kinda centralized, then every studio decides they need to get their own service, and then you gotta pick and choose which service to use. This will make pirating worse tbh.

    • @jer1776
      @jer1776 10 місяців тому +22

      Streaming exclusively is a ridiculous concept itself and making it illegal will fix a lot. Blockbuster couldnt gain a monopoly on giving people Marvel or Disney movies to rent, so why should streaming services?

    • @ChrisThe1
      @ChrisThe1 10 місяців тому +17

      it's pretty interesting that this is true except for music streaming. Spotify, Apple Music and UA-cam basically all have the same music

    • @ceasormayhem101
      @ceasormayhem101 10 місяців тому +22

      @@ChrisThe1 Right? Cause consumers are more willing to pay for Disney and Paramount, but they're not gonna pay just to have access to Roadrunner records.
      Tbh, I hope this whole subscription model partially collapses. It's best with few services with large libraries.

    • @neomedved
      @neomedved 10 місяців тому +1

      How do you imagine it being illegal exactly? Disney should be obligated to sell rights for streaming their movies and shows to Netflix or something? Or to every streaming service in the existence even?

    • @jackieAZ
      @jackieAZ 10 місяців тому

      @@ceasormayhem101tbh, streaming problems are platform problems in general, and privatized platforms are capitalism problems

  • @mudachaproductions
    @mudachaproductions 10 місяців тому +309

    Ubisoft peaked with Assassin's Creed Black Flag and Rayman Legends, over 10 years ago. I've had 0 interest in their games since then, and by the looks of it that's not likely to change. 😂

    • @LegionIscariot
      @LegionIscariot 10 місяців тому +8

      For me it was FarCry 2. That was back when Ubisoft was actually a creative company. Their games are just so dull.

    • @cyangalaxy
      @cyangalaxy 10 місяців тому +2

      omg I absolutely loved AC: Black Flag.
      it may have been more a pirate game, less Assassin one. But maybe thats why I like it so much? Anyhow... I hope Ubisoft makes the upcoming Skull & Bones a nice pirate game. I don't think it will be at the level of Black Flag, but at least trying to reach there...

    • @42pyroboy
      @42pyroboy 10 місяців тому

      I didnt realize black flag was that old already

    • @Suzuki_Hiakura
      @Suzuki_Hiakura 10 місяців тому +1

      I prefer the Ezio collection tbh... Revelations was rather buggy, but it had its own likeness to it that was somewhat different to brotherhood. Blackflag was great, but despite the fun naval battles, I didn't much care for it as I preferred the more land locked gameplay lol... and not the jungles...

    • @justcallmenoah5743
      @justcallmenoah5743 10 місяців тому

      I like Rainbow Six, Vegas, Vegas 2 and Siege specifically. Siege, the only modern game mentioned has many deep flaws such as battle passes and fun bucks microtransactions, but it came out in my first year of highschool and I have played a lot of it with friends over the years, nostalgia I guess.

  • @thewempstinator
    @thewempstinator 10 місяців тому +101

    Something that didn't get mentioned about music vs movie streaming.
    Music streaming services have largely the same collections, so the competition is relatively strong.
    Movie streaming is a far more fragmented experience and much more common for content to become completely unavailable or exclusive to one service

    • @lilkidsuave
      @lilkidsuave 10 місяців тому

      Mostly. Tidal and Qobuz often are missing a couple things, and Amazon Music sometimes has multiple copies of the same album, but certain songs in one version are unplayable but do exist in another. Spotify is often the go-to even for small artists, but they don't have flacs. It's not perfect, but you could get most of what you want via one service.
      But I rather have my own server so I use navidrome, and Spotify and Amazon music as backups.
      Amazon is cheaper because my prime subscription and Spotify is a duo plan with my brother.

    • @Dave102693
      @Dave102693 10 місяців тому +1

      Exactly

    • @InsufficientGravitas
      @InsufficientGravitas 10 місяців тому +4

      Moving to a games streaming model would look more like moving from apple music (specifically buying digitally from apple) to having to use sony or warner bros music streaming services.

    • @Fallen_Family
      @Fallen_Family 10 місяців тому

      Exactly for instance on the streaming service Vudu a lot of the older Godzilla movies are no longer available for purchase not only on Vudu but other services as well

  • @jer1776
    @jer1776 10 місяців тому +174

    Im 29 and I still have my Minecraft maps from when I was 16, gamers are not boomers, were more than capable of backing up our save data without some cloud server that will inevitably go offline.

    • @AgentKenshin
      @AgentKenshin 10 місяців тому +8

      I'm almost 40 and I still have stuff backed up and my old original 80 MB hard-drives.

    • @512TheWolf512
      @512TheWolf512 10 місяців тому +2

      cloud is kinda necessary depending on where you live. in Ukraine for example.

    • @AgentKenshin
      @AgentKenshin 10 місяців тому +14

      @@512TheWolf512 living in Ukraine you have far bigger things to worry about than gaming.

    • @512TheWolf512
      @512TheWolf512 10 місяців тому +7

      @@AgentKenshin it's not about gaming, it's about data storage in general.

    • @sammiller6631
      @sammiller6631 10 місяців тому +5

      @@AgentKenshin Ukrainans already know how much Russians like to Rush B during CounterStrike, so they can plan around that. Maybe someone misheard "Rush B" as "Rush Kyiv"?

  • @CasepbX
    @CasepbX 10 місяців тому +103

    I've been extremely happy not having the craptastic Ubi junk store launcher on my PC for over 5 years now. It was byfar the worst storefront.

    • @Fizz-Pop
      @Fizz-Pop 10 місяців тому +3

      It is always good not to give sex offenders money.

    • @KH-nm9xg
      @KH-nm9xg 10 місяців тому

      Microsoft Games Store begs to differ

  • @PJ666PJD
    @PJ666PJD 10 місяців тому +69

    The problem with subscription games is the same as subscription movies now. Everyone wants a piece of the pie. Netflix used to be amazing until the studios decided to make their own subscription. Music works because it’s still under one service no matter what service you choose

    • @Bncxx1275
      @Bncxx1275 8 місяців тому

      Untill their music production studio start to battle with Spotify and other a like

  • @emanuel3617
    @emanuel3617 10 місяців тому +39

    This is like buying the rights to use a blender that is going to stay at your friend's house and you can only use it when he let's you. Are you seeing how stupit that sounds?

    • @emanuel3617
      @emanuel3617 10 місяців тому +4

      I just want to buy a Frickin DVD and own it. I think people don't understand that the more we integrate tech into our lives and the more we accept this as normal the less we will own our tuff, I can see a future where my toaster is softlocked cuz I didn't pay the monthly heat subscription

    • @MrMiddleWick
      @MrMiddleWick 9 місяців тому

      Isn't that basically how a movie theater subscription works?

  • @marcberm
    @marcberm 10 місяців тому +133

    There is a MAJOR difference between "not owning a game collection" and "losing access to owned games." The CD collection comparison is ridiculous. It's not the same thing.

  • @notbfg9000
    @notbfg9000 10 місяців тому +446

    *If buying isn't owning then piracy isn't stealing* ;3

    • @italianbasegard
      @italianbasegard 10 місяців тому +4

      You wouldn’t download a car.

    • @mrmoosetachio
      @mrmoosetachio 10 місяців тому +5

      With streaming services you arent buying the product itself.
      You are buying access to the product via the streaming servuce for as long as they provide access or have rights to provide access.

    • @larsmurdochkalsta8808
      @larsmurdochkalsta8808 10 місяців тому +1

      Real

    • @xXRealXx
      @xXRealXx 10 місяців тому +32

      @@italianbasegard yes I would

    • @brandons9027
      @brandons9027 10 місяців тому +1

      Word

  • @klassicneo
    @klassicneo 10 місяців тому +44

    Remember online games used to be able to allow you to host your own servers? That was a great time.

    • @everythingpony
      @everythingpony 9 місяців тому

      That's called p2p and a lot of games do that

    • @kricku
      @kricku 9 місяців тому +2

      You can still do it in Minecraft, right? I hope

  • @emulationemperor8924
    @emulationemperor8924 10 місяців тому +71

    Only 7:15 into the episode, so it might be addressed. But I think Linus is missing a big underlying tone of the statement that people should be more comfortable not owning games. We have spotify and netflix for music and movies, yes. But those services do not prevent you from going out and buying physical copies of your favorite artist or film for you to watch or use at your own convenience. The way that the Ubisoft person talked about game ownership was about removing the option for people to buy the games they want to buy in favor of a subscription model. And for anyone that is even slightly into the hobby, being able to own the game you want and play whenever or however you'd like is very important. And on top of all of that, we already have massive games that you can't own. Everything live service. You pay for access to a game, not to purchase the game itself.

    • @AceLeach
      @AceLeach 10 місяців тому +10

      When the subscription service wants to bring in big numbers, yes it DOES prevent me from going out and buying it. Tell me where I can buy a blue ray of any season of Stranger Things? Tell me where I can buy a blue ray of a season of The Mandalorian? You can't because they are created to be a streaming service exclusive film/show to drive subscriptions up, and your literal only choice is to subscribe or pirate. Otherwise, you're right.

    • @sandromorales9631
      @sandromorales9631 10 місяців тому +1

      ​@AceLeach I see your point but googles free make sure something doesn't exist before you say it don't

    • @DarkAngelGuyver
      @DarkAngelGuyver 10 місяців тому +2

      @@AceLeach Funny thing about your Mandalorian mention. Disney actually caved and released special edition blu rays of seasons 1 and 2. Though going off the issues I've had with the S1 discs I don't think their QA was very good.

    • @kimutone2970
      @kimutone2970 9 місяців тому

      ​​@@AceLeach that's a fair point, but people can find ways to screen record those and release them for download. You can't legally get it, but it's still there. With games we don't have that privilege, here we are left with 20 GB of useless data and you'll NEVER be able to play again.

  • @doctorspook4414
    @doctorspook4414 10 місяців тому +23

    Regarding movie/show streaming services, Lois Rossman had a video about this, the tech companies force you to use android boxes and such devices to enable the eventual feed of ads.
    So netflix/amazon prime/etc., on Windows with any browser only deliver 1080p.
    On Linux with any browser, it's not even HD, it's less than 720p.
    I've noticed this personally with prime video and netflix on both windows and linux mint & debian on a brand new 4k TV.
    I was so dissappointed as a paying customer.

  • @walterp1028
    @walterp1028 10 місяців тому +32

    Linus, not owning music, I get that the vinyl community is fairly small, but there are still large portions of people that like to own all their music on vinyl.

    • @personzorz
      @personzorz 10 місяців тому +7

      I buy MP3 albums and back them the hell up

    • @Alias_Anybody
      @Alias_Anybody 10 місяців тому +3

      Mp3 320 is all I need.

    • @konnorj6442
      @konnorj6442 10 місяців тому +3

      Owning music is owning regardless of format
      What matters is being able to buy the music if we want without DRM shit shoved into the picture which is 100000% refuse to ever abide by or support period
      Ohn and I not only have LPs new and old I remember when that was the dominant format alongn with others.
      The quality of such varied alot over the yrs however and there was a lot of uber crappy lps produced that modern remasters are often infintely better

    • @walterp1028
      @walterp1028 10 місяців тому +2

      @@konnorj6442 yeah I was just using vinyls to make a point

  • @spicepirate
    @spicepirate 10 місяців тому +12

    Ubisoft should get comfortable with game piracy

  • @Blooable
    @Blooable 10 місяців тому +16

    I bought one album from Google play music (i would have gotten physical but it was sold out & didn't want to wait) & those tracks are still some of the most crisp audio files i have ever heard. When they shut down i was able to download them & its a bit jarring to heard those same songs on UA-cam after getting use to the downloaded quality.

  • @TheCatMan9000
    @TheCatMan9000 10 місяців тому +56

    Keep On Digging Ubisoft.

  • @vbevan
    @vbevan 10 місяців тому +6

    12:16 - removing online services for a game is a different issue to subscriptions vs hard copies. If the online servers are shutdown, you can't play online regardless of the medium.
    All the games listed on the page Linus references can still be bought/downloaded, they just can't be played online.
    Entirely different issue.

  • @gapa6612
    @gapa6612 10 місяців тому +15

    If buying isn’t owning then piracy isn’t stealing.

  • @seafighter4
    @seafighter4 10 місяців тому +7

    16:30 But if Ubi goes bankrupt, the games you already own won't be made public. Ubi will be bought by some loanshark company and they will milk every last drop out of its corpse before laying everyone off.

  • @dside_ru
    @dside_ru 10 місяців тому +11

    3:15 " Nu-uh, Assassin's Creed at this point is basically a Far Cry derivative"
    Well… yeah. One can argue which franchise exactly is the origin, but they all are in one and the same bowl of blandness today. Not that hot a take.

    • @joe5413
      @joe5413 10 місяців тому +1

      They've both slowly merged into ubisoft derivatives in a messed up form of convergent evolution you play assasins creed for the third person ubisoft formula and farcry for the first person ubisoft formula

  • @OhChrumbs
    @OhChrumbs 10 місяців тому +23

    I think we need to seriously consider banning streaming services from producing their own movies, and putting harsh restrictions on exclusivity deals, and doing something similar with games.
    If media is made to be watched/played, instead of bulking out a streaming catalogue, and services need to complete on the quality of the service, not as many films/games they can monopolise, a lot of the issues with subscriptions would disappear.

    • @OhChrumbs
      @OhChrumbs 10 місяців тому +9

      They did something similar in the US in the 1940s. Banning the big movie studios from owning cinemas, block booking, and regional quotas massively improved the cinema industry through the rest of the 20th century.

    • @Dave102693
      @Dave102693 10 місяців тому

      I agree. I think that exclusivity deals in entertainment industry (with some leeway, very little leeway as possible in the video game space) needs a hard ban.

  • @Amphibax
    @Amphibax 10 місяців тому +14

    Sometimes pirating is the only real option some music or movies you just can't find on streaming and often the physical copies are hard to find or really expensive.

  • @Alias_Anybody
    @Alias_Anybody 10 місяців тому +11

    Funny how the towers to uncover the map were so overused for a short time period that many people aren't even aware that the last Far Cry that really embraced them was FC4 from 2014.
    FC3 had them, FC Blood Dragon didn't, FC4 as mentioned, Primal had a light version of them and FC5 had two basically as a reference, FC6 doesn't have them

  • @gauthamasiddharth9221
    @gauthamasiddharth9221 10 місяців тому +28

    "director of subscription" sounds like a parody.

  • @astrayamatu
    @astrayamatu 10 місяців тому +6

    Ubisoft: how can we solve the issue were people are getting mad if we remove the support of their older games so they cant play them any more
    Ubisoft : make it so that people don't own their games any more so they cant complain about us removing support from games they dont own

  • @AlejandroCaicedoPUJ
    @AlejandroCaicedoPUJ 10 місяців тому +12

    "I don't wanna have unnecessary plastic in my house"
    -the guy who literally has nes cartridges in his house

    • @wilwhileaway
      @wilwhileaway 10 місяців тому +1

      But those are necessary plastic!

    • @AlejandroCaicedoPUJ
      @AlejandroCaicedoPUJ 10 місяців тому +4

      @@wilwhileaway not like he plays the cartridges anyway

    • @wilwhileaway
      @wilwhileaway 10 місяців тому +1

      @@AlejandroCaicedoPUJ of course not, that would damage the collectiblity

    • @MrMiddleWick
      @MrMiddleWick 9 місяців тому

      @@wilwhileaway ...so it's an unnecessary plastic then?

  • @GlenMerlin
    @GlenMerlin 10 місяців тому +6

    8:10 Spotify also allows this but the process is a little hacky. If you add a local media song to a playlist and then download the playlist on another device it'll sync the file over from your other device if they're both online. Only for premium users of course but it works surprisingly seamlessly considering that it feels like a glitch or a bug to be able to do that

  • @jeremypilot1015
    @jeremypilot1015 10 місяців тому +6

    You may not need a CD collection, but I have multiple MP3s saved to my devices that I can play when I want without internet access if needed.

  • @luckyhomestead
    @luckyhomestead 10 місяців тому +18

    6:17 That's because you are not listening to music. Music for you is just fun background....

  • @seafighter4
    @seafighter4 10 місяців тому +7

    15:40 That is the next big thing I'd like EU regulators to to take a stab at: Software, or services more broadly, that are to be made obsolete by shutting down the supporting software those services rely on, need to have that software made open source.

    • @dorientjewoller113
      @dorientjewoller113 10 місяців тому +2

      You know what the reason can be behind the response of Larian Studios. It's a Belgian company and in Belgium the words "selling, buying & purchasing" have the same legal meaning: exchange of ownership by means of a payment.

    • @arturpaivads
      @arturpaivads 10 місяців тому

      ​@@dorientjewoller113 just commenting that Ive bought Baudurs Gate 3 through GOG and theres a nice little button to download a offline game installer that does not expires hahaha

  • @FeronTheRaccon
    @FeronTheRaccon 10 місяців тому +6

    As long as games exist they will exist in a file on some server somewhere, If companies think this is the best option they are in for a rude awakening when the day one cracks turn into day one security breaches with dozens of hacking groups infiltrating their servers all at once not only stealing games but whatever other data existed on that server.
    All they are doing is changing the motivation from removing DRM like denuvo to infiltrating corporate networks to steal the raw files for a game.

  • @howling-wolf
    @howling-wolf 10 місяців тому +4

    I do not have a cd collection. But I am not comfortable with not owning my favourite shows/ movies/ audiobooks/ music. That's why I have a digital archive which cannot be taken from me when a subscription ends or a company decides that a license is too expensive for them.

  • @originaldarkwater
    @originaldarkwater 10 місяців тому +6

    Handing tools over to the community or a smaller company when the original publisher wants to shut down the service is something that has happened with some MMOs, like Ultima Online and Dark Ages of Camelot, so there IS precedent.

  • @randomrud
    @randomrud 10 місяців тому +4

    Some CDs have been "remastered" into worse versions with stupid low dynamic range and the good ones aren't avilable anymore.

  • @jonathanpatry
    @jonathanpatry 10 місяців тому +11

    What game are they talking about at 26:00? FF VI?

    • @slicedtoad
      @slicedtoad 10 місяців тому

      They were talking about realtime combos, though? Was it two different games they were talking about?

    • @samhartley6154
      @samhartley6154 10 місяців тому +2

      @@slicedtoad It was FFVI (probably Pixel Remaster) and they were talking about Sabin's Blitzes.

  • @FelanLP
    @FelanLP 10 місяців тому +5

    I am not realy comfortable with not owning anything from Steam. BI make this reality easier for myself by stricktly not buying ANY game when it costs me more then 20 bucks in their collectors or complete editions. And 30 is my hard limit when it comes to game-dlc-stuff bundles where EVERYTHING related to this game is included.

  • @dayv6368
    @dayv6368 10 місяців тому +4

    I think with games it's a different story because not only do you need access to a copy of the game whether physically or digitally, but games also require specific hardware to be played. With a movie or with music, as long as you have a TV, computer, phone, or any other device capable of executing a file, you can run it and consume it. Games though, are software that actively run and interact with the hardware. Unless I'm missing some critical knowledge here, game ownership is more important because the hardware needed to run them is much more specific and limited.

  • @Turnabout
    @Turnabout 10 місяців тому +4

    Linus: You own a CD collection to rip it to your server, then stream your own music from now until the Internet breaks forever without having to worry about services going down, services losing the license, or an ever-increasing monthly fee.
    Best decision I ever made with my media was going off of streaming entirely and buying Blu-rays, DVDs, and CDs for my server. I won't ever subscribe to an online movie service again. UA-cam Premium is the only streaming service I pay for and it feels fantastic.

    • @Turnabout
      @Turnabout 10 місяців тому

      Oh. And I can rip my CDs in lossless audio instead of settling for UA-cam Music or Spotify's craptastic audio quality. Deezer's is good but they keep raising their prices.

    • @Amphibax
      @Amphibax 10 місяців тому +1

      For the price of the subscription you can buy a cd once a month after some time you will a really big collection and no thinking about increasing prices

    • @Dave102693
      @Dave102693 10 місяців тому +1

      I was thinking doing the same thing

    • @Turnabout
      @Turnabout 10 місяців тому

      @@Dave102693 It's honestly a pretty fun hobby and not all that expensive.

    • @Turnabout
      @Turnabout 10 місяців тому +1

      @@Amphibax You can buy CDs pretty cheaply nowadays too. There are retailers on eBay who will sell used CDs, good ones, for $1-5 USD.

  • @superLSD
    @superLSD 10 місяців тому +5

    when subscriptions for music and movies came out, they were ridiculously cheaper than buying the actual products. One cd's cost is between 5 and 20 and that was the price of the subscription for access to tens of thousands of albums

  • @azazelleblack
    @azazelleblack 10 місяців тому +1

    I would really prefer if you (editor) would crop out all the parts that aren't related to the topic. The extended discussion of why Linus doesn't like BG3 is not related or interesting.

  • @victortsuchino8740
    @victortsuchino8740 10 місяців тому +3

    I just wanted to say that many years ago I switched from using physical cd's for music to using spotify. However, recently many songs that I have had in my playlists for years have been removed from spotify so I can no longer listen to them. This is not a big problem for me, however, the thought of doing this with video games and potentially just losing the ability to play certain games makes me very unfcomfortable with a subcription model. I bought Skyrim in 2012 and still play it, if i just suddenly lost it from my library and couldnt play it anymore, I would be pretty upset.

  • @Danielsworlds
    @Danielsworlds 10 місяців тому +1

    As a Team Fortress 2 player this is the issue we are currently battling.
    Valve has abandoned the game's development. And while from a balance at the gameplay perspective the game is in an okay position.
    Cheaters bots and people abusing exploits run rampant. And with nobody at the wheel to implement fixes for these problems they continued to spiral and make the actual game itself nearly unplayable.
    The community has been arguing for years to just hand over the reins of development to the community.
    Leave us alone, let us run the ship and we promise not to break anything.

  • @GlenMerlin
    @GlenMerlin 10 місяців тому

    7:50 Spotify does this, the sea of stars OST had a song pulled due to some issue with a missing layer or channel. it turned into a stub and I needed to go to their profile and save the new version

  • @particle_wave7614
    @particle_wave7614 10 місяців тому +2

    I used to collect movies (DVDs and some Blu Rays). Still have them but mainly switched to streaming. Then starting noticing low bitrate, color banding, etc. Just bought a 4k blu ray player. I’m definitely getting back on the physical media band wagon. Having an OLED TV only to see terrible color banding in dark scenes is stupid

  • @greatestcait
    @greatestcait 10 місяців тому +3

    The only thing I regret is that I can't boycott Ubisoft's games, because I already don't buy them.

  • @kaijuultimax9407
    @kaijuultimax9407 10 місяців тому +3

    I haven't purchased a Ubisoft game since 2018 and Ubisoft has done nothing to persuade me that this was a bad choice.

  • @Raynorhunter
    @Raynorhunter 10 місяців тому +1

    I feel like everyone forgets the Asian market still exists. And they never gave up on physical media. Cds, albums, blue rays and other physical forms of purchases are still wildly popular

  • @WhySolSirius
    @WhySolSirius 10 місяців тому +3

    I still buy blu-rays of the movies I really like, because I hate streams of them so much. The compression artifacts of bright red in particular in a lot of stuff just drives me nuts.

  • @Pdasniper
    @Pdasniper 6 місяців тому

    If youtube music has a stub of removed music I have never seen it. You don't get notified about removed stuff. I've determined something was missing when I haven't heard it in the shuffle in a while and got to know it's no longer there

  • @EvanzoZubinsky
    @EvanzoZubinsky 10 місяців тому +2

    I wish every discontinued product would become open source kind of like what happened to stalker. Not only I still play this 2007 game in its vanilla form every once in a while, it’s modded and community supported version, gamma now, looks and feels on par or better with the modern titles, it is mind blowing.

  • @NightWolfx03
    @NightWolfx03 10 місяців тому +1

    And as services for games disappear, you can still host a game of Quake or Unreal Tournament on LAN or over the internet and play with friends. The only thing that disappeared was the server browser, but some people host third party ones. I pretty much all my music so I can listen anywhere, with or without a connection to the internet. I do not and will resist to the best of my ability to EVER PAY FOR GAMES AS A SERVICE.

  • @Spencerwalker21
    @Spencerwalker21 10 місяців тому +1

    15:40 that won't happen you'll need government legislation to force Ubisoft and others to do so.

  • @ZuLangable
    @ZuLangable 10 місяців тому +4

    1080p BluRay looks way better than 4k netflix stream

  • @TheWolvesCurse
    @TheWolvesCurse 10 місяців тому +1

    last ubisoft game i bought was Rocksmith 2014 edition. when they made the new Rocksmith game a subscription only model, centered around a stupid mobile app, the deal was sealed anyway. still own a physical copy of farcry 2 and 3, that's about enough ubisoft for me.

  • @danieldover3745
    @danieldover3745 10 місяців тому +1

    I have a huge DVD/CD collection. I ripped them all to my NAS and run Plex on it. I also get a lot of music as digital files from Bandcamp. The result is I have my own streaming service that I'm in total control of. It's not cheap, no, but following all the assorted streaming services isn't cheap either, and their costs add up while my server was a one-time cost.

  • @ВикторФирсов-е9ф
    @ВикторФирсов-е9ф 10 місяців тому +4

    I love random digressions. I don't have the time to watch the entire show, but snippets of random conversations are still fun.

  • @pettycrimesandmisdemeanors
    @pettycrimesandmisdemeanors 10 місяців тому +1

    If piracy isn't stealing then it should be so I can keep my street cred up

  • @somesalmon5694
    @somesalmon5694 10 місяців тому +2

    When they shut down the online services for games, they should give the software for hosting to the community for those who want to keep supporting and playing the games online

    • @NotAghostSpeedruns
      @NotAghostSpeedruns 10 місяців тому

      Yeah, definitely. By the time I finally got around to trying a game called "The Mighty Quest for Epic Loot", which I got from a humble bundle, the servers were permanently offline and there was no gameplay to be had without them. Maybe there are workarounds, I don't know. My interest in trying the game wasn't enough to go seek them out.

  • @unnamedx2
    @unnamedx2 10 місяців тому +3

    27:49 are they talkimg about sf, tekken or what?

    • @slicedtoad
      @slicedtoad 10 місяців тому +2

      Yeah, I want to know what they are talking about too. They mentioned saving an "esper", "cure", combos and the snes. Was there a FF game for snes that had real-time combos?

    • @xvxchronoxvx
      @xvxchronoxvx 10 місяців тому +2

      Zozo and espers are FF6 (FF3 on SNES) Zozo being a town, espers being a magical creature. Also, floating continent is a FF6 reference. Not sure if they were joking about actually playing it though

    • @slicedtoad
      @slicedtoad 10 місяців тому

      @@xvxchronoxvx Then what was the stuff about combos being easier on a keyboard than a controller? (at the start of the diversion when taking about the game Luke couldn't run on his computer).

    • @xvxchronoxvx
      @xvxchronoxvx 10 місяців тому +2

      @@slicedtoad Sabin had a blitz technique that required you to perform a combo on the controller, similar to how you would play the flute on ocarina of time

    • @slicedtoad
      @slicedtoad 10 місяців тому

      @@xvxchronoxvx Oh, ok, thanks.

  • @Sammitche
    @Sammitche 10 місяців тому +1

    I bought a significant amount of music from the Google Play Music and lost it all when they deprecated years ago.
    Since then I try to buy as much of my music in the form of CDs from Half-Priced books.

  • @aidankelley2696
    @aidankelley2696 10 місяців тому

    As someone who watches netflix on my 1080p monitor, while im gaming, its hard to tell the bad quality, but when its on a 4k tv its definitely apparent, which makes sense its really hard to stream 4k quality every second though wifi compared to a disc sending a direct signal to your tv, it also ruins the movie experience when your wifi fluctuates or the streaming traffic cant handle what your watching and the quality dips randomly

  • @Roach115
    @Roach115 10 місяців тому +2

    Bg3 is the kinda game you have a hard time pacing yourself i got the game on a whim being unsure of what level of enjoyment i would have then proceeded to invest 120 hours into it in the span of a week on one play though never getting bored just challenged it has been over a decade sense a game has grabbed me in such a way

    • @Roach115
      @Roach115 10 місяців тому +1

      Side note i played this entirely on controller except one puzzle i found in act 2 as this game requires allot of time investment i wanted something i can lean back with and play and for a game of its genre controller support is phenomenal

    • @SkullyGibs
      @SkullyGibs 10 місяців тому

      @@Roach115 Exploration is way better on controller. I've always disliked click to move games. Now, if only they'd stop messing with my radials menus, that'd be great.

    • @Roach115
      @Roach115 10 місяців тому +1

      @@SkullyGibs oh my god i came back to it last weekend and i thought it felt different i kinda disliked it alittle more then before

  • @Jurtaani
    @Jurtaani 10 місяців тому

    my honest take on the matter is that, if i bought a game that is either completely single player or has good portion of the game in single player.
    and then the publisher shuts down some online drm or some other crap, and suddenly i lose access to that single player game.
    then i have no pity towards them and i feel that i do nothing wrong if i download the game from pirated sources or apply some other DRM stripping methods to it.

  • @timecage
    @timecage 10 місяців тому +2

    Streaming services become progressively worse as an option the more niche is the music you listen to and the more precious it is to you to have access to it always.

  • @richardhunter9779
    @richardhunter9779 10 місяців тому +1

    I was CONSIDERING buying Prince Of Persia, but when I installed the demo from Epic Games, it asked for admin privileges 6 times, downloaded, installed and updated ANOTHER launcher, and then asked me for admin SEVERAL MORE TIMES, I am no longer considering it.
    This kind of frustrating, depressing product will not make my life better at all.

  • @Illuminationsfromtheattic
    @Illuminationsfromtheattic 10 місяців тому +1

    Yeah, I really don't care about Ubisoft games anymore. Their anti-ownership BS is the final nail in the coffin for me.

  • @SMthegamer1
    @SMthegamer1 10 місяців тому

    Only 3 of the songs I have on CDs are available outside of those CDs, there's been hundreds of times I wanted to watch a film but it wasn't available to stream so I had to grab the DVD off my shelf, and there's been even more times I wanted to play a game while offline (both due to my own connection and host issues) so I had to insert the disc.
    Owning physical media is crucial to my life.

  • @nathanfehlbaum7580
    @nathanfehlbaum7580 10 місяців тому

    The thing I dislike is that along with the online services being shut down the deactivated the dlc as well. Eg. In ACII the family tomb is no longer available even if you have the dlc downloaded.

  • @Abayas.
    @Abayas. 10 місяців тому +2

    Man, I got Jebaited by that title. I was worried that if Linus was pro not owning our games that I'd have to leave him behind.

  • @garrotmon
    @garrotmon 9 місяців тому

    I buy dvds because the movies shift around to the other services and get pulled randomly, but spotify has never pulled any music (at least to the point of me noticing, led alone being annoyed by it)

  • @Hdcrafter_lp
    @Hdcrafter_lp 10 місяців тому +1

    16:57 that's a problem with every graph. that's where the fake quote from Churchill comes from "I only believe in statistics that I doctored myself"

  • @KingHalbatorix
    @KingHalbatorix 10 місяців тому +7

    The problem isn't ubisoft, the problem is every other game company that is going to adopt this approach in order to increase revenues and please their investors. I remember skyrim golden horse armor, and look at where we are now with cosmetic microtransactions. The slippery slope is only a fallacy in the rigorous context of a formal debate, in real life it is almost a guarantee.

  • @lyianx
    @lyianx 10 місяців тому +1

    10:30 Louis Rossman did a video about how he paid to have HD streaming, and he was only getting 720.

  • @lolislachlan
    @lolislachlan 10 місяців тому +1

    on the cd collection i'm with luke, and i especially love buying an artists album to support them directly if i like them, also nsp and dan avidan sign a lot of their cds lmao

  • @Suzuki_Hiakura
    @Suzuki_Hiakura 10 місяців тому +1

    I have a collection of over 300 games on steam, and paid for maybe 200 of them (some were free due to a special promotion or just free)... I was okay not owning my DVD's or CD's, but that was when it wasn't so ridiculous as now; why pay for Netflix to watch about 20 movies/shows (as I don't care for other stuff) only to have them remove them for months at a time, yet still pay for Netflix. I can buy the DVD's and upload them to my personal media server, and I can watch whatever I own for cheaper than paying for multiple streaming services.
    The subscription model was good, but they got greedy and instead of improving it so they could make sustainable profit, they have cut back heavily on quality for some short term gain.

  • @z1mt0n1x2
    @z1mt0n1x2 10 місяців тому +2

    Ok, so in the future we gonna subscribe to a couple things...
    Ubisoft, Namco, Activision, Sega, WB Games, Epic, Netflix, HBO, Prime, Disney, AppleTV, Discord Nitro, UA-cam Premium, FloatPlane, Pateron, a phone bill, and your internet service... A few among other things. Am I supposed to starve to death just so some schmuck can buy a yacht from all his subscribers?
    F that, I'm going back to piratebay.

    • @Dave102693
      @Dave102693 10 місяців тому

      A lot of independent creators got like $5+ monthly subscriptions, regardless if they are live streaming influencers, non live streaming influencers, sex wrkers, wank material artists, video essayists, video editors, animators, indie musicians, etc too.
      Enshitfication is here to stay! 😭

    • @z1mt0n1x2
      @z1mt0n1x2 10 місяців тому

      @@Dave102693 I can happily pay for a product once, just like I do when buying a dishwasher or a bike. I'm also ok with buying cosmetics if I care, say, if the cosmetics are nice.
      I will however never pay for a subscription of any kind unless I have to, or feel like someone deserves some extra cash. Without these restrictions I would surely pay well over a 100 bucks a month. My family have more use of that money.

  • @dexter7954
    @dexter7954 10 місяців тому

    @13:30 I have no purpose for UA-cam music. I have no purpose for UA-cam premium outside of ad-free content. If I eventually get locked out of UA-cam due to adblock use, I would consider buying a cheap version that just removes ads. Otherwise I have no reason to pay money for bloatware services that YT is pushing. Offline videos?? Background play??? I have spotify that delivers a service me exactly how I would use that already for a cheaper price than YT premium.

  • @adhillA97
    @adhillA97 10 місяців тому

    I keep a CD collection of specifically Eurovision CDs, because the licensing around them is a nightmare (~40 songs, each from a different country and artist every year). The couple of occasions when I have also purchased the digital album (I think it was released ahead of the physical media for a few years), most of the songs are gone from the digital version of the album (WHICH I PAID FOR) within a few years after purchasing.
    This is also the primary reason that I use UA-cam Music (and not just because it comes free with UA-cam Premium), because you can upload up to 50k of your own archived tracks and stream them like they're any other track on the platform (you just can't share them with people on other accounts).

  • @ReepsWasteOfTime
    @ReepsWasteOfTime 3 місяці тому

    8:07 Apple Music also supports it. It also supports uploading full movies as well”music” videos and it supports lossless audio that means it works great on sound systems

  • @wagonmike5243
    @wagonmike5243 10 місяців тому +1

    in general there is toooooo much streaming service(streaming tv service included), i miss the old CD with the booklet. i prefert own thing i get a lot of CD not anvailable on streaming.

  • @Skyliner_369
    @Skyliner_369 9 місяців тому

    mind, Netflix also has some terrible anti-piracy measures as well. you basically have to build an EXACT PC to THEIR SPECIFICATIONS otherwise you get nothing above 720p

  • @tavern.keeper
    @tavern.keeper 10 місяців тому +1

    What games are they talking about at the end? 26:58 through 29:35

    • @jonathanpatry
      @jonathanpatry 10 місяців тому

      I cant confirm but I have a suspicion they are talking about FF VI

    • @tavern.keeper
      @tavern.keeper 10 місяців тому

      @@jonathanpatry Luke's computer won't run FF6?

    • @MustachioFurioso9134
      @MustachioFurioso9134 10 місяців тому

      They mention Zozo, which is a town in FFVI
      But I'm confused at the mentions of combos and not being able to run on his computer...because that's def not FFVI

  • @monkeywithocd
    @monkeywithocd 10 місяців тому +1

    I would need a lot more than a promise in writing. I'd need them to not only release the server software and whatever else necessary for any games they've discontinued over the past decade, but also for them to *continue to do that* for years going on. I don't believe a damn word any of these companies say, whether they're legally obligated to abide by them or not, I need to see them actually commit.

  • @Fennek_Kaipii
    @Fennek_Kaipii 10 місяців тому

    UA-cam Music still allows uploads but refuses to play them (or even purchased titles/albums) at all through Google Home, without you running it through the app itself.
    It demands a subscribtion and will ignore your own uploads all together through voice commands in Google Home.
    Google Music didn´t have these issues and was therefore superiour in its use for me.

  • @F-aber
    @F-aber 10 місяців тому +1

    I always hear that google Music was so much better than UA-cam music, but never any reasons why (besides two points that Linus had made over the years, about integration with some hardware stuff and some stuff about child accounts i think) Anyone know any big reasons why it’s so much worse, stuff that affects a lot of people?

  • @DiogoExMarques
    @DiogoExMarques 10 місяців тому

    Similar to what Linus was describing for Google Play Music, Apple Music supports uploading your own files to the cloud to listen to alongside their catalog and it works really well to fill in the gaps, especially in niches like video game soundtracks.

  • @larsmurdochkalsta8808
    @larsmurdochkalsta8808 10 місяців тому

    UA-cam music also tells you when something gets removed from UA-cam music. But I don't know if it tells you If it gets removed from UA-cam as well.

  • @jamiea2254
    @jamiea2254 4 місяці тому

    Why can’t I find the video with Taran on floatplane 😢

  • @DavidH373
    @DavidH373 10 місяців тому +1

    Why are they talking about Bluray in the middle of a "clip". I mean I agree with him but this thing is 30 g-dang minutes, wrap it up! haha

  • @rightwingsafetysquad9872
    @rightwingsafetysquad9872 10 місяців тому +1

    Funny Luke mentioned Civ V. I still play it weekly. I own it on Steam because my cousin wrecked my Civ 4 discs (3/5 of them). Steam removing Windows 7 support has me considering going back to disks. I was still running XP when I bought the game. Even if that computer were still working, I couldnt play on it anymore. Valve isn't so much the good guy anymore.

  • @BMXaster
    @BMXaster 10 місяців тому +1

    Yeah Ubisoft really wouldn't be a major loss to be honest. Anything after FarCry4 was pretty trash. So no loss in quality IPs there.

  • @dajavax
    @dajavax 10 місяців тому +3

    imagine when record companies start making their own streaming services and start removing their songs from the standard ones 🙃...

    • @stitchfinger7678
      @stitchfinger7678 10 місяців тому

      They've all tried it in some capacity before
      It dies because the big players don't wanna support the labels' ecosystems so they die without that support

  • @player1_fanatic
    @player1_fanatic 10 місяців тому +1

    Hmm... Wasn't Baldurs Gate 3 on Stadia, during early access?

    • @TempoLOOKING
      @TempoLOOKING 10 місяців тому +1

      Stadia ❤😂😅😊😂

    • @quinboi3461
      @quinboi3461 10 місяців тому +1

      Afik you actually "bought" the games on stadia but just always played them on their service

    • @player1_fanatic
      @player1_fanatic 10 місяців тому

      @@quinboi3461Good point! But also one of the reasons why Stadia failed as streaming service. Folks where just not willing to "buy" game at full price, plus pay fee for streaming in high quality. And at the end, you still did not "own" the game, after service got shut down.

    • @player1_fanatic
      @player1_fanatic 10 місяців тому

      To clarify, it was not like some other streaming services, where you can Stream games you already own on Steam or something. It was bough specifically to play on Stadia only.

    • @MustachioFurioso9134
      @MustachioFurioso9134 10 місяців тому +1

      ​@@player1_fanatic true, and to be fair, they refunded me for every game I purchased on the service. So, while it was "streaming" you owned the games atleast and were compensated for losing access to them.

  • @pleasedontwatchthese9593
    @pleasedontwatchthese9593 10 місяців тому +1

    99% of media I stream but I archive the 1% I really like. I do buy CDs or DRM free copy of music. Same with movies, I wanted to see something simple and I didnt want to subscribe to random streaming service to see a movie I see a lot. Also there is some older anime thats like dvd only which I do keep.

  • @JeronimoStilton14
    @JeronimoStilton14 10 місяців тому

    27:30 what game are they going on about?

  • @hommyguy
    @hommyguy 10 місяців тому

    What game are they talking about at the end, that Luke's Computer can't run?